Tobacco has a long history, spanning well over thousands of years. Earliest visible signs were seen through carved drawings in stone that were made by the Mayan Indians of Mexico. These drawings date back to between 600 and 900AD. However, experts believe that tobacco has been growing since as far back as 6000BC and think Native American inhabitants began finding ways to smoke it around two thousand years ago.

Native Americans were thought to smoke tobacco as medicine and occasionally for religious ceremonies, where the earliest signs depict a Mayan smoking a role of tobacco leaves tied with a string. The Native Americans continued using tobacco themselves.... Click here to read more